It was the perfect combination of special interests and government non-intervention that led to chaos.
If you don't know what went down here is a sit-rep.
The Unite the Right group, an alt-right white nationalist coalition, got a permit to hold an assembly in Emancipation Park. Emancipation Park was formerly known as Lee Park after Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The city council changed the name of the park and then also decided to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee that is still in the park.
White nationalists decided that this should be ground zero for a protest and obtained a permit to do so. The city council, after issuing the permit, decided to move the rally to McIntyre park. The white nationalist coalition challenged it, the ACLU got behind them, and a federal judge decided the rally had to go ahead as permitted.
Liberal special interest groups, some bused in, particularly antiFA groups which believe in limiting free speech through violent action, opposed to the white nationalist special interest groups decided to counter protest.
The government decided to let them go head to head, by funneling them into each others paths. The two groups were purposely routed into each others path by cops. Then the cops stood back. And waited. For what eventually would happen.
I've worked and lived in C-Ville and it is not a violent town. The people there tend to drown out those that they protest against with shouts and drums and...bag pipes. NOT violence.
So if you are on either side of this then you are being played by forces that are moving the national discourse in the way in which they will profit at your expense.
And that is my take.
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